JOHN  R.  MOTT— CHRISTIAN  STATESMAN 

BY  FRANK  B.  LENZ,  New  York 


IT  HAS  been  said  that  every  man 
has  his  adjective — but  not  so 
John  R.  Mott.  It  would  be 
difficult  to  circumscribe  him  by 
grammar,  rhetoric  or  epithets. 
Physically  and  morally  he  is  large 
and  straight  and  square.  He  is 
distinctly  American  with  the  evi¬ 
dence  in  his  face  of  concentration, 
poise,  peace,  strength  and  earnest¬ 
ness.  When  in  action  there  is  no 
room  to  doubt  the  determination 
and  will  power  of  the  man.  Great 
physical  strength  and  energy  are 
revealed  in  his  movements.  He 
commands  others  because  he  has 
conquered  himself  and  because  he 
himself  has  learned  to  obey  a 
higher  Power. 

Everyone  realizes  that  he  cannot 
be  labeled  or  confined  within  sec¬ 
tarian  limits.  It  is  enough  to  say 
that  he  is  a  Christian  and  is  loyal 
to  Christ  and  His  Church  univer¬ 
sal  and  so  might  be  termed  an 
“Ecumenical  Christian.”  He  deals 
habitually  with  intellectual,  moral 
and  spiritual  esentials,  and  in  that 
sense  he  might  be  called  an  “essen- 
tialist,”  rather  than  a  “modernist” 
or  “fundamentalist.” 

John  R.  Mott  cannot  be  ex¬ 
plained  by  analyzing  his  great  ad¬ 
ministrative,  intellectual  and  or¬ 
ganizing  abilities.  There  is  a  spir¬ 
itual  dynamic  about  him  that 
brings  things  to  pass.  His  great¬ 
est  purpose  in  life  is  to  discover 
and  do  the  will  of  God. 

Mott  is  a  prodigious  worker. 
Whether  at  home  or  in  the  office, 
on  the  sea  or  in  the  subway,  he  is 
busy  toward  purposeful  ends.  Yet 


he  works  without  manifesting 
hurry  or  worry  or  impatience.  So 
completely  does  he  lose  himself  in 
the  causes  of  Christ  that  he  takes 
no  thought  of  time,  space  or  handi¬ 
caps.  Problems  exist  to  be  solved. 
Crisis  exist  to  be  transcended. 

He  has  frequently  said  that 
when  a  man  lacks  world-conquer¬ 
ing  power  it  is  because  he  has  been 
conquered  by  the  world  and  not  by 
Christ.  In  one  of  his  addresses  he 
says: 

Come  to  Christ  for  the  particular 
thing  you  need.  Is  it  cleansing?  He 
will  make  you  clean.  Are  you  depressed 
and  discouraged?  He  will  plant  new 
hope  in  your  breast.  Are  you  weak? 
He  will  give  you  energy.  Let  Him  flood 
your  life,  flood  it,  flood  it,  that  you  may 
say,  “It  is  not  I  that  liveth,  but  Christ 
that  liveth  in  me.”  Let  us  rise  in  new¬ 
ness  of  life. 

One  of  the  remarkable  character¬ 
istics  of  Mott  is  his  ability  to 
change  men’s  attitudes  from  op¬ 
position  and  hostility  to  one  of  con¬ 
fidence  and  hearty  support.  This 
can  best  be  explained  by  spiritual 
influence  rather  than  on  human 
grounds.  Men’s  hearts  are  stirred 
by  his  appeals  and  their  wills  re¬ 
spond  so  that  they  are  ready  to  fol¬ 
low  his  leadership. 

“Mott  is  earnest  and  able,  but  he 
will  never  make  a  speaker,”  said 
Richard  C.  Morse,  General  Secre¬ 
tary  of  the  International  Commit¬ 
tee  of  the  Association  about  the 
time  the  young  Cornell  graduate 
joined  his  staff.  Today,  forty 
years  later,  while  he  makes  no  pre¬ 
tense  to  eloquence  and  rhetoric,  he 
is  unique  for  his  ability  to  electrify 
an  audience.  While  he  never  seeks 


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merely  to  entertain  his  hearers, 
the  deep,  vibrant  qualities  of  his 
voice,  his  poise  and  dignity,  his 
choice  of  words  and  staccato  sen¬ 
tences  and  his  commanding  grasp 
of  the  subject,  compel  attention. 
He  shows  this  power  even  when 
speaking  through  an  interpreter 
on  his  extended  foreign  tours. 

Mott  is  recognized  as  a  master¬ 
ful  presiding  officer.  At  the 
World’s  Convention  of  the  Young 
Men’s  Christian  Association,  which 
met  at  Helsingfors,  Finland,  in 
1926,  he  handled  that  audience  of 
fifteen  hundred  delegates  from 
fifty-two  nations,  day  after  day, 
with  such  superb  skill  and  fairness 
that  the  meetings  ended  without  a 
ripple  and  on  schedule  time.  Thor¬ 
ough  preparation,  great  attention 
to  details  and  the  selection  of  wise 
and  capable  associates  are  keys  to 
the  success  of  the  conferences  and 
assemblies  over  which  he  presides. 

While  Mott  is  not  noted  for  his 
humor  and  does  not  have  time  to 
spend  in  telling  jokes,  those  who 
know  him  intimately  know  well  his 
keen  relish  for  good  stories,  and 
his  own  ability  to  tell  them. 

Mott  and  Money 

One  of  the  significant  contribu¬ 
tions  that  Mott  has  made  to  Chris¬ 
tian  progress  is  through  his  abil¬ 
ity  to  convince  men  and  women  of 
social  standing  and  large  wealth, 
that  it  is  worth  while  for  them  to 
invest  large  sums  in  great  causes 
that  will  continue  to  bear  fruit 
long  after  he  and  they  are  gone. 
The  offerings  which  he  recom¬ 
mends  are  not  wild  cat  stocks,  but 
“gilt  edge”  investments  that  build 
character,  that  bind  together  the 
races,  nations  and  classes  and  that 
promote  the  Kingdom  of  God 
among  men.  He  challenges  people 
to  give  not  paltry  sums  but  large 


and  sacrificial  offerings.  No  one 
knows  the  number  of  millions  he 
has  raised  for  Christian  work.  He 
has  helped  to  lift  giving  from  the 
level  of  a  small,  begging  appeal  to 
a  dignified  plane  that  commands 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  the 
donor.  Dedicated  money  is  as  im¬ 
perative  and  as  sacred  as  dedicated 
lives.  If  rightly  used  money  is  as 
truly  a  means  of  bringing  in  the 
Kingdom  of  God  as  preaching  the 
Word  of  God.  It  is  characteristic 
of  Mott,  that  before  asking  for  a 
gift  he  takes  great  pains  in  pre¬ 
paring  the  case  thoroughly  and 
spends  much  time  in  prayer  before 
presenting  it.  Money  raising  for 
Christian  enterprises  may  be  re¬ 
garded  as  an  important  and  highly 
spiritual  religious  activity.  Many 
of  John  R.  Mott’s  best  friends  are 
those  who  have  given  him  the  larg¬ 
est  sums  over  a  period  of  years. 
Scores  of  donors  have  testified  to 
the  sacramental  effect  that  their 
gifts  have  had  on  their  own  lives. 
The  motive  that  animates  the  ap¬ 
peal  and  the  purpose  for  which  the 
money  is  used  determine  the  char¬ 
acter  of  the  effort.  Mott  believes 
in  sacrificial  giving  not,  “until  it 
hurts,”  but  “until  it  feels  good.” 

Mott  in  Print 

A  large  collection  of  books,  docu¬ 
ments,  magazine  articles,  and 
pamphlets,  have  come  from  the 
mind  and  heart  and  pen  of  John  R. 
Mott  in  the  past  forty  years. 
Many  of  these  are  of  a  high  order 
and  of  enduring  value.  The  burn¬ 
ing,  vital  messages  have  deeply 
impressed  and  moved  large  num¬ 
bers  in  many  lands.  “Confronting 
Young  Men  with  the  Living 
Christ”  or  that  striking  pamphlet, 
“The  Price  of  Leadership”  (writ¬ 
ten  over  twenty  years  ago),  will 
convince  any  reader  that  they  were 


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DR.  JOHN  R.  MOTT  AND  DR.  DAVID  Z.  T.  YUI  AT  JERUSALEM,  MARCH,  192S 


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the  product  of  no  ordinary  indi¬ 
vidual. 

In  all  of  his  books  there  are  pas¬ 
sages  which  reveal  wide  vision  and 
strength  and  character.  Many  of 
his  volumes  have  been  translated 
into  other  languages  and  are  dis¬ 
tributed  widely,  especially  in  the 
great  university  centers.* 

War  Work 

As  noble  men  of  God  in  the  mon¬ 
asteries  of  Europe  kept  the  flame 
of  the  Christian  religion  alive  dur¬ 
ing  the  Dark  Ages,  so  other  noble 
followers  of  Christ  endured  the 
trials  of  the  arena  of  conflict  and 
made  Christ  real  in  the  midst  of 
the  appalling  lusts  and  hatreds  of 
the  World  War.  It  was  heartrend¬ 
ing  to  see  the  best  manhood  of  the 
nations,  march  into  the  fiery  fur¬ 
nace.  Character  was  needed  that 
would  not  burn  or  die,  but  this 
seemed  almost  impossible.  Mott 
carried  a  cross  day  and  night  dur¬ 
ing  those  terrible  years,  but  under 
his  leadership  were  mobilized  and 
intensified  the  moral  and  physical 
forces  of  the  enlisted  men.  From 
the  war  zone  he  returned  to  Amer¬ 
ica  and  asked  for  $170,000,000  for 
the  United  War  Work  Campaign. 
The  response  was  $205,000,000, 
given  because  men  and  women 
knew  the  awful  consequences  if 
their  loved  ones  at  the  front  and  in 
camp  were  not  surrounded  by  some 
decencies  and  restraints  of  civiliza¬ 
tion.  To  keep  men  and  boys  from 
going  to  physical  and  moral  dis- 
truction  during  the  reactions  fol¬ 
lowing  the  terrors  of  battle,  mil¬ 
lions  of  dollars  were  contributed 


*  Among  his  books  are  :  “Strategic  Points 
of  the  World’s  Conquest,”  “The  Evangelization 
of  the  World  in  this  Generation,”  “Christians 
of  Reality,”  “The  Pastor  and  Modern  Missions,” 
“The  Future  Leadership  of  the  Church,”  “The 
Decisive  Hour  of  Christian  Missions,”  “The 
Present  World  Situation,”  “The  World’s  Chris¬ 
tian  Federation”  and  “Confronting  Young  Men 
with  the  Living  Christ.” 


for  work  in  debarkation  camps, 
naval  stations,  rest  billets  and 
prison  camps.  Mott  led  this  gigan¬ 
tic  movement  to  hold  men  up  to 
the  best,  and  to  help  make  right¬ 
eousness  prevail.  As  head  of 
the  United  War  Work  campaign, 
he  devoted  an  energy  and  determi¬ 
nation  that  was  almost  alarming 
to  some  of  his  associates. 

The  Christian  religion  was  en¬ 
listed  and  was  one  of  the  few 
forces  to  return  to  usefulness.  It 
was  not  submerged  or  destroyed, 
and  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  with  the  help 
of  a  group  of  noble  American  lay¬ 
men,  was  one  of  the  chief  agencies 
that  kept  religion  functioning. 
This  and  other  organizations  acted 
as  the  good  Samaritan  among  forty 
nations  at  a  time  when  passion  was 
enthroned,  and  in  the  midst  of 
those  years  of  pain,  suffering  and 
sorrow.  As  an  expression  of  ap¬ 
preciation  of  the  service  rendered 
on  behalf  of  the  American  soldiers 
and  sailors,  as  well  as  the  men  of 
the  allied  armies  and  prisoners 
of  war,  the  United  States  Govern¬ 
ment  gave  Dr.  Mott  a  Distin¬ 
guished  Service  medal,  the  French 
Government  made  him  Knight  of 
the  Legion  of  Honor,  and  the  Ital¬ 
ian  Government  conferred  upon 
‘  him  the  Order  of  the  Italian 
Crown. 

Influence  on  Youth 

For  forty  years  Mott  has  helped 
to  keep  the  attention  of  the  world 
riveted  on  youth.  As  international 
student  secretary  for  the  Christian 
Association  he  repeatedly  circled 
the  globe  to  push  an  aggressive 
campaign  of  evangelism  among 
students  in  the  great  university 
centers  of  Asia,  Africa,  Europe 
and  Latin  America.  He  was  one 
of  the  early  student  volunteers  for 
Foreign  Missions  and  for  years  he 
actively  shared  in  the  development 


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of  that  movement.  Later  he  con¬ 
ceived  the  idea  of  the  World  Stu¬ 
dent  Christian  Federation,  and  be¬ 
came  one  of  its  founders  at  Vad- 
stena  Castle,  Sweden,  1895.  Stu¬ 
dents  all  over  the  world  were  thus 
united  under  the  banner  of  Christ 
and  the  influence  of  the  Federation 
has  become  so  far-reaching  that  at 
present  its  work  embraces  more 
than  forty  countries,  over  3,000 


also  had  a  large  part  in  launching 
the  notable  work  of  the  Interracial 
Commission  which  promotes  bet¬ 
ter  racial  understanding  between 
white  people  and  the  Negroes 
throughout  the  United  States. 

Curiously  enough  as  Mott  grew 
older  he  came  to  see  more  clearly 
the  strategic  importance  of  Chris¬ 
tian  work  with  boys  and  he  turned 
his  attention  vigorously  to 


DELEGATES  AT  TIIE 


HELSINGFORS 


YOUTH  CONFERENCE 


IN  FINLAND,  192G 


colleges  and  universities  and  a 
membership  of  300,000.  In  recog¬ 
nition  of  his  work  for  students, 
Yale  University  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts 
thirty  years  ago. 

Repeatedly  Mott  has  said:  “I 
have  learned  to  trust  youth/’ 
Since  the  globe  has  become  his  par¬ 
ish  he  has  learned  to  trust  them 
whatever  their  color,  race  or  na¬ 
tionality.  One  of  the  most  states¬ 
manlike  things  he  ever  did  was  to 
establish  a  committee  to  promote 
friendly  relations  among  foreign 
students  studying  in  America.  He 


strengthening  the  Association’s 
program  among  those  of  the  teen 
age.  With  characteristic  emphasis 
he  said :  “Let  us  go  into  towns  and 
villages;  into  our  cities  and  rural 
districts,  with  a  living  apprecia¬ 
tion  of  the  transcendent  impor¬ 
tance  of  getting  hold  of  the  boys. 
Let  us  all  have  a  hand  in  this  highly 
multiplying  work — that  of  relating 
boys  in  their  plastic  years,  their 
vision-forming  years,  their  ideal¬ 
determining  years,  their  habit¬ 
forming  years — to  the  ever  living 
Christ.” 


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The  Kingdom  of  God  First 

Gifted  with  qualities  that  would 
have  made  him  a  great  statesman, 
educator,  jurist,  editor  or  business 
man,  John  R.  Mott  has  turned  a 
deaf  ear  to  the  many  appeals  that 
would  remove  him  from  the  field 
of  distinctive  Christian  work. 
When  he  was  a  student  at  Cornell, 
more  than  forty  years  ago,  he  made 
a  decision  that  completely  changed 
the  course  of  his  life.  One  eve¬ 
ning,  coming  in  late  at  a  crowded 
student  meeting  where  the  famous 
Cambridge  University  cricketer, 
J.  E.  K.  Studd,  was  speaking,  he 
heard  the  following  words :  “Seek- 
est  thou  great  things  for  thyself ; 
seek  them  not.”  He  heard  little 
more,  but  this  text  led  to  a  great 
soul  struggle  which  resulted  in  his 
•  decision  to  turn  his  back  on  the 
law,  the  profession  for  which  he 
was  preparing.  From  that  day  he 
has  done  everything  within  his 
power  to  strengthen  the  Church 
of  Christ  and  build  the  Kingdom 
of  God  on  earth.  To  prove  his 
loyalty  to  the  new  purpose  to  which 
he  dedicated  his  life,  Mott  has  re¬ 
fused  business  offers  that  would 
have  given  him  a  large  income ;  he 
has  also  declined  college  presiden¬ 
cies  and  could  not  be  persuaded  to 
accept  the  high  office  of  American 
Minister  to  the  Republic  of  China 
which  President  Wilson  urged  him 
to  consider. 

“A  man  cannot  be  a  Christian 
alone,”  he  has  repeatedly  main¬ 
tained  as  he  has  urged  men  and 
boys  to  avail  themselves  of  the 
privileges  of  the  church  and 
to  take  up  the  responsibilities. 
Through  him  thousands  of  men 
have  thus  been  led  to  dedicate  their 
lives  to  the  Christian  ministry  at 
home  or  abroad.  The  Association 
has  been  recognized  as  “an  arm 
of  the  church”  or  “the  Church's 


auxiliary”  not  as  an  independent 
organization. 

Dr.  Mott’s  devotion  to  the  cause 
of  Christ,  above  all  other  causes,  is 
illustrated  by  an  incident  that  oc¬ 
curred  a  few  years  ago  on  a  visit 
to  Manila  that  lasted  only  thirty 
hours  but  was  historic.  He  ad¬ 
dressed  a  convocation  at  the  Uni¬ 
versity  of  the  Philippines  one 
afternoon,  when  the  grandstand  on 
the  athletic  field  was  filled  with 
students  and  members  of  the  fac¬ 
ulty,  and  hundreds  more  were 
standing  on  either  side  of  the  plat¬ 
form.  His  subject  was  “Christ,  as 
our  hope  in  overcoming  tempta¬ 
tions.”  It  was  an  unusual  address 
for  a  convocation  of  the  University 
but  the  students  were  very  respon¬ 
sive.  He  impressed  all  who  heard 
him  as  being  on  the  Lord’s  business 
and  not  his  own. 

In  International  Affairs 

Theodore  Roosevelt  described 
Mott  as  a  man  who  had  rendered 
most  consistent,  useful  and  disin¬ 
terested  service  in  the  United 
States  and  in  many  other  coun¬ 
tries.  Chief  Justice  Taft  has  said: 
“There  is  no  one  of  the  present  day 
who  has  a  greater  world  vision  of 
promoting  the  better  side  of  all 
men  and  more  experience  in  fitting 
him  to  do  so  than  Dr.  Mott.  Lead¬ 
ers  in  centers  of  influence  the 
world  over  are  familiar  with  his 
capacity  and  genius.  This  has 
made  him  a  great  agent  in  the 
progress  of  civilization.” 

When  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Laws  was  conferred  upon  him  at 
Princeton  University  in  1911,  he 
was  characterized  as  “a  devisor  of 
national  and  international  agen¬ 
cies”  and  as  “a  traveler  over  four 
continents  in  search  of  room  for 
work.”  Twice  he  was  sent  on  po¬ 
litical  missions  by  President  Wil- 


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son  who  regarded  him  “as  one  of 
the  most  useful  men  in  the  world.” 
In  1916  he  was  a  member  of  the 
American  and  Mexican  Joint  Com¬ 
mission  to  settle  the  difficulties  be¬ 
tween  the  two  countries  and  in 
1917  he  was  a  member  of  the  Spe¬ 
cial  Diplomatic  Mission  to  Russia, 
headed  by  Elihu  Root. 

He  has  been  decorated  many 
times,  for  the  distinctive  services 
he  has  rendered.  In  addition  to 
those  already  mentioned,  he  has  re¬ 
ceived  the  Imperial  Order  of  Meiji 
of  Japan,  the  Order  of  Polonia 
Restituta  of  Poland,  the  Order  of 
the  Saviour  of  Greece,  the  Order 
of  the  Holy  Sepulchre  of  Jerusalem 
and  the  Second  Order  of  the  Crown 
of  Siam.  He  is  probably  ac¬ 
quainted  personally  with  more 
crowned  heads  and  leaders  of 
State  than  any  other  living  Amer¬ 
ican.  It  has  been  said  that  before 
the  war,  he  knew  every  prime  min¬ 
ister  in  Europe. 

Where  in  the  history  of  Chris¬ 
tian  work,  has  any  other  man  held 
five  positions  of  major  importance 
simultaneously?  Dr.  Mott  has,  at 
the  same  time,  held  the  unique  dis¬ 
tinction  of  being  president  of  the 
World’s  Alliance  of  the  Young 
Men’s  Christian  Associations, 
Chairman  of  the  World’s  Student 
Christian  Federation,  Chairman  of 
the  International  Missionary  Coun¬ 
cil,  General  Secretary  of  the  Na¬ 
tional  Council  of  the  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Associations  of  the 
United  States,  and  Chairman  of 
the  Institute  of  Social  and  Re¬ 
ligious  Research.  For  some  years 
he  was  also  Chairman  of  the  Ex¬ 
ecutive  Committee  of  the  Student 
Volunteer  Movement  and  very  ac¬ 
tive  in  the  Foreign  Missions  Con¬ 
ference  of  North  America.  Any 
one  of  these  positions  would  tax 
the  capacities  of  an  ordinary  man. 


Foreign  Misssion  Activity 

The  foreign  work  of  the  Young 
Men’s  Christian  Association  re¬ 
ceived  its  chief  stimulus  in  the  be¬ 
ginning  from  him.  Its  aim  was  to 
establish  self-supporting  and  self- 
propogating  associations  in  the 
strategic  cities  of  foreign  lands  un¬ 
der  native  leadership.  A  network 
of  modern  buildings  which  serve  as 
demonstration  centers  all  over  the 
world  testify  to  the  success  of  the 
enterprise. 

Mott’s  activity  in  the  missionary 
enterprise  and  his  influence  in  or¬ 
ganizing  Christian  forces  in  all 
lands  led  to  his  being  regarded  as 
one  of  the  most  constructive  re¬ 
ligious  geniuses  since  John  Wesley. 
His  ability  to  unify  and  coordinate 
disorganized  and  unrelated  forces 
has  resulted  in  effecting  large  econ¬ 
omy,  in  the  reduction  of  overlap¬ 
ping,  and  in  the  minimizing  of  na¬ 
tional  and  denominational  friction. 

The  World  Missionary  Confer¬ 
ence  held  in  Edinburgh  in  1910 
was  planned  to  develop  a  program 
of  closer  cooperation  and  unity 
among  all  evangelical  churches. 
Mott  at  forty-five  was  chairman  of 
the  conference  which  brought  to¬ 
gether  1,200  delegates  from  all 
over  the  world.  His  work  was  so 
noteworthy  that  the  University  of 
Edinburgh  conferred  upon  him  the 
degree  of  LL.D.  even  before  the 
convention  was  called  to  order. 
This  conference  ended  the  policy 
of  separate  action  on  the  part  of 
mission  societies  in  their  approach 
to  the  world  task.  Out  of  the  con¬ 
ference  there  sprang  a  Continua¬ 
tion  Committee,  which  “advanced 
by  great  strides  the  cause  of  in¬ 
ternational  cooperation.”  As  chair¬ 
man  of  this  committee,  Dr.  Mott 
drew  together  in  area  after  area, 
national  missionary  councils,  both 


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in  “sending”  and  in  “receiving” 
countries.  Those  in  China,  Japan, 
India,  North  Africa  and  Eastern 
Asia  and  Latin  America,  by  the 
incorporation  of  the  indigenous 
churches,  became  National  Chris¬ 
tian  Councils.  These  in  turn  were 
united  in  a  great  new  organization 
— t  h  e  International  Missionary 
Council,  which  last  April  closed  its 
remarkable  sessions  at  Jerusalem. 

A  Great  New  Task 

Recently  Mott  has  resigned  as 
General  Secretary  of  the  Associa¬ 
tion  movement  in  the  United 
States,  but  it  is  not  that  he  may 
seek  rest  and  settle  down  in  the 
stuffy  atmosphere  of  the  study  to 


reminisce  about  the  past.  He  has 
resigned  to  make  way  for  youth  in 
a  youth  movement.  Having  taken 
this  step  he  does  not  hover  around 
to  become  “Chairman  of  the 
Board”  but  he  has  already  started 
on  a  tour  of  India  in  connection 
with  his  important  duties  as  Chair¬ 
man  of  the  International  Mission¬ 
ary  Council — a  task  of  such  urgent 
character  as  to  require  the  exercise 
of  all  his  powers.  He  firmly  be¬ 
lieves  that  the  Christian  world  sit¬ 
uation  demands  that  leaders  every¬ 
where  “re-think,  re-state,  reinter¬ 
pret  and  apply  the  Christian  mes¬ 
sage,  and,  where  necessary  revise 
plans  and  methods.”  To  this  task 
he  will  now  devote  all  his  powers. 


Mottisms 

Trust  your  hopes  and  not  your  fears. 

Jesus  Christ  is  Lord  of  all  or  not  Lord  at  all. 

Our  best  days  lie  ahead  of  us. 

Dawn  comes  not  twice  to  awaken  man. 

The  secret  of  most  highly  multiplying  leadership  lies  in  preserv¬ 
ing  at  all  costs  a  life  of  transparent  sincerity  and  reality. 

The  tasks  the  centuries  might  have  done  crowd  the  hours  of 
setting  sun. 

This  nation  must  be  saved  from  crass  materialism. 

Your  morning  watch  depends  upon  your  resolutions  of  the  night 
before. 

The  most  pathetic  sight  which  meets  my  gaze  is  that  of  Christian 
men  distributing  the  bread  of  life  with  emaciated  hands. 

Thank  God  the  distinctive  mission  of  Christ  is  to  liberate  captives. 

When  a  man  lacks  world  conquering  power  it  is  because  he  has 
been  conquered  by  the  world. 


